If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

http://liveitactive.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/it-is-not-ok-interview-on-fat-shaming-part-1/ This is NOT a poe. But first, here are the pictures the interviewee is responding to, and calling hateful and bigoted: http://liveitactive.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/strong4life-1.jpg JB: Like any prejudice ...

http://liveitactive.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/it-is-not-ok-interview-on-fat-shaming-part-1/ This is NOT a poe. But first, here are the pictures the interviewee is responding to, and calling hateful and bigoted: http://liveitactive.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/strong4life-1.jpg JB: Like any prejudice ...

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7o21dArya1r54gbe.jpg I didn't realize there was a formal list of privileges. Look at this shit. So just going from male to female moves you down the list a fuckton of spaces. From #1 to #9, and all that changed was the gender. So either women are super oppressed, or ...

Well, that should rock... [youtube]ZxDLkoK8vQQ[/youtube] Wow. Herzog. Allen. Gervais. PZ, you could've been a rock star. You fucked up big time, boy. http://i.imgur.com/ZberkqH.jpg Cast (in alphabetical order) Ayaan Hirsi Ali Woody Allen Richard Dawkins Daniel C. Dennett Cameron Diaz Ricky Gervais ...

On the subject of "intent is not magic", cartoonist Ted Rall has been banned from the Daily Kos because his caricature of Barack Obama is apparently "ape-like" and therefore racist. Rall is upset at the accusation. Comics critic and inveterate SJW Noah Berlatsky has weighed in at The Atlantic claim...

WTF? That was a weird quote fail.

Maybe it was filled with dude-bro fist bamps, macho backslapping and gendered insults so the born-again PZ scrapped it and just dug up some old blog posts instead? TH=he highly likely scenario is that Natural Revelation was the book Peezus had been working on all along, back when he was bragging ab...

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Outrageous. :bjarte:

There's a whole series of something called "Social Justice Wario." http://31.media.tumblr.com/4cf17ca721f82c1aa15183912c253867/tumblr_mwzl0vzbdR1t0bg1so1_250.png Ah yes. Wario, well known for his social justice activism. I think the men in white coats are on their way. My brain can't hold out forev...

Sucks to edit mistakes INTO a post. Fuck me.

Though he's TOLD that story so many times, it's probably just boilerplate and can be found in scores of places.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/05/15/bat-sex-is-not-protected-by-ac/#comment-824779 What the fuck? Was this really written by the same Josh the Spokesgay? I'm telling you, going back to the old Pharyngula threads on Scienceblogs is like entering a different dimension. There is still some g...

She comes across as either a poe, taking the piss out of victim feminism, or an idiot. I think she's none of the above. I think she's dishonest and is milking it, like faith healers and prosperity gospel preachers cynically milk their flocks, after failing as a 'teleconferencing consultant/flim-fla...

im pretty sure pz's book must be near completion he's been touting how hard he's been working on it for years. A few pages were leaked onto the internet earlier this year. http://artful-kids.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Scribble1.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_d1KNz7eW1wo/Sudl7lh5Y9I/AAAAAAAA...

It's brilliant, AnthonyK is now flat out challenging Meyers to get his dick out and stop just boasting about how big it is: http://i.imgur.com/8koRTyy.png http://i.imgur.com/z3ZmIUL.png :popcorn: In the wild, do zebrafish attract piranha? India not South America. They do attract just about every pr...

What in the world in PZ trying to hint at in his graph below? His commentators are confused as well. Comment 1 suspects self aggrandisement. AnthonyK continues to tiptoe the line by suggesting PZ had previously been in the centre of what I can only interpret as being a zebra fish circle jerk. http:...

She's also a shitty comedian . Her facial expression rarely changes, and she damned near speaks in a monotone. While that can work, (Steven Wright), it's rare. Facial expression and body language is important to comedy. Here, watch a Carlin video some time with the sound muted. Just watch his facia...

TRIGGER WARNING 44 minutes in. Rebecca tells a sex story/tries her hand at comedy. [youtube]I1czbZSt7Uw[/youtube] Did I mention the TRIGGER WARNING ? So: 1. He's a 'boy.' I do seem to remember that if she'd be called a 'girl' there'd be misogynistic hell to pay. 2. He's eye candy. I do believe when...

[quote="Dick Strawkins] An independent scholar unbeholden to the academic establishment. I've read a few books by people who describe themselves that way, and it invariably means they're cranks and conspiracy theorists selling untenable ideas about the pyramids, Atlantis, fixing Egyptian chronology...

Defeating ableism by making everyone disabled - using genetics to allow parents to pick a disability for each child - I lol'd.{/quote] Of course, some chosen disabilities would be more privileged than others. So among SJWs, making your kids sensitive human fainting goats would be far more prized th...

Top (current) headline on Yahoo!: Mugger apologizes to victim on Facebook â€” 35 years later ... "You may not remember this," Goodman wrote on Nov. 19, "but a long, long time ago I walked up the steps of The Museum of Natural History one afternoon, trying to look like a tough guy. â€œI have never fo...

That' was hilarious. That woman looks so sad and so deluded. For the record, I have a cat in my face several times a day, demanding, with repeated sharp short meows! that I pick up the toy she's brought and play with her. My consent is not queried and she ignores me when i say no. No kidding, she j...

Oggies experiences sound like kids playing doctor and in the sexphobic US is considered molestation. My cousin "L" (just over a year older than me) and I played "Doctor" every summer until she hit puberty. Only then did her father put an end to it. So, for six years we did "I'll show you mine, you ...

Cyranothe2nd, there's no such thing as a moderate ally 1 September 2013 at 10:52 pm (UTC -6) @ 143, 425, Iâ€™ve been afraid to post in this thread and kinda dithering with the open comment box for a few hours. Because I did come here to post about my own sexual assaults (which happened when I was 7...

https://www.google.com/search?q=cis+slur&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a A quick google shows me who is claiming that "cis" is not a slur. Fucking surprise surprise, the people defending its use are those who intend to use it negatively! I'm sure 'nigger' didn...

"Cis" is well on its way to join "faggot" "nigger" and "kike" in the world of bigoted slurs you should be ashamed to say in public. I have yet to hear the word "cis" used in a positive context by anyone. A few "cis" people use it in reference to themselves, but they are inevitably male feminists. B...

My kitty comes when I call. She also plays fetch! It's like having a dog. One of my two cats does the same thing. The other studiously ignores me unless its breakfast or dinner time, at which point she's extremely interested in everything I do and, just in case I forgot, there is a starving kitty w...

Specifically, if Rebecca Watson (to be shared with all of Skepchick), Heina, PZ myers (on behalf of all of FTB- maybe email Ed Brayton too? ) Crommunist, and Hemant Mehta couls be contacted, plus anyone we can think of, that would be AWESOME. Grimalkin seems rather delusional if he thinks he can re...

Here's the vaccine marketing research study from "Women Thinking, Inc", done on grant from JREF: http://womenthinking.org/Vax_Survey_Report21.pdf Found it linked here: http://womenthinking.org/ It was apparently posted in 9/2013 (per the group's twitter feed). This is the group previously called "W...

Dana Hunter complained that sports but not movies were allowed on the television at work. But movies have continuous narratives that demand sustained focus from viewers, whereas sports more easily lend themselves to viewing of the glance-up-momentarily-and-then-look-away variety, which strikes me a...

What a fucking broken bunch of psychos. That is just scary. Pfeh. They're about as scary as a baby orangutan that's got no arms or legs. This is what they live for: yet another one of them to reveal themselves as being "broken" so they can all be broken together and never have to actually do anythi...

<snip> I have great confidence that you arenâ€™t having us on, that these experiences are genuine and reflect your genuine history. I also have great confidence that we donâ€™t know quite a lot that you consider significant in your assessment of yourself. Thatâ€™s okay. We donâ€™t have to know ever...

A bit heartwrenching over at Myer's lounge 471 Ogvorbis: Broken, failing, hurting. 29 November 2013 at 8:34 am (UTC -6) Portia: Apparently, we, the FTBers, have branded Richard Dawkins a rapist yet coddle a confessed rapist within our midst. Me. Sorry. http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/11...

I just re-read the Oggie thread bits at FtB. When sunlight once more shone a couple of things stood out. 1. Oggie was 12 at the time. 2. The three girls were having a game of doctors or some such equiv. pre Oggie. 3. Oggie joined in did stuff similar to what he had had done to him - who knows what....

ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:In the absence of Jenneke, here's a grab from a Youtube video I've been watching. And watching. And watching...

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Who?

http://i.imgur.com/nLgZEhO.jpg http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/11/09/thunderdome-38/comment-page-1/#comment-719429 Sooo... the perfectly reasonable 0 - 100, Kelvin-compatible Celsius scale that THE WHOLE WORLD USES is "abominable", while that idiotic 32-212 Fahrenheit scale that Murikan...

None of this directed at you, Aneris, your's was just the the latest comment on this business. I must confess to being very uncomfortable with some of the judgement going on over this Ogvorbis issue. How can anyone be sure what the effect on their morality and personality would be if they experienc...

Wasn't it Service Dog who did a really thorough review of O's posts & blog, posted here, creating an argument w/ supporting evidence that O's "recovered memories" as likely false, even purposefully so? But even so. Being abused might help explain a tendency to abuse others, but doesn't excuse it. S...

Aneris's new comment on the Nugent thread makes Steersman seem like William Carlos Williams! http://www.michaelnugent.com/2013/11/26/richard-dawkins-nuanced-memoir-and-the-unjust-personal-smears-against-him/comment-page-1/#comment-395707 And a most excellent comment it was. http://i.imgur.com/AdvLk...

A complete tragedy, I'm sure. Both copies were snagged: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/11/29/a-tragedy-in-morris/ - A Tragedy in Morris (sold out of Happy Atheist). Did he make it required reading? I had a professor who did that. There was no way to get an 'A' in her class unless you d...

I have te say, one of the things that bothers me most about the Ogvorbis (I finally spelt it right!) issue is this business of recovered memory. I do not think this has been exposed/discussed enough. Yes, I know a couple of people have pointed it out, but nonetheless, there is a, in a sense, false ...

Then there was the guy I remember from school whose first name was spelled Jonathan but was pronounced "Joe-Nathan". When I was a teacher, I would have pronounced that guy's name 'Jonathan'. Reason being that, while politeness requires some effort to get people's names right, I don't believe that t...

Looks like someone caved: Our letter to the Beastie Boys November 27, 2013Debbie Dear Adam and Mike, We donâ€™t want to fight with you. We love you and we are actually huge fans. When we made our parody version of your song, â€˜Girlsâ€™, we did it with the best of intentions. We wanted to transform ...

Was this the post where he claimed that, although he appears to be a privileged white cis-clown male oxonian, he's really an oppressed Romani traveler who is a lifelong victim of racism? I believe he revealed that he has been subject to hate-crimes like people mispronouncing his last name (before h...

Myers has a pharyngula post up today about some terrible paper that has just been retracted. http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/11/29/belated-retraction-of-seralinis-bad-anti-gmo-paper/ It's a perfectly decent article by him - it explains the reasons behind the retraction and rightly criti...

. Welch you bastard It's eliciting comments like these that make off 'pit commenting a joy. With a bit of luck they will "literally" have a fucking heart attack and keel over. http://i.imgur.com/mWY2t01.jpg Jesus Christ, they're stupid. 1. Oggie was raped and coerced to rape a child he names "S." A...

Now, who did it? While it's probably the server, there's no guarantee. It could very-well be the manager. A dishonest manager could process the original, keep the tip, and give the waiter a copy and tell him/her she was stiffed. Except that every server checks out the receipt (and tip) before turni...

Just out of curiosity, what do you think would happen if a 'pitter made an Oggie-esque confession? No offense, but I would not greet any of you with only-if-you-consent Internet hugs and invite you to babysit my children. In reality, if you were 'accepted' by the Pit, I'd flounce in a heartbeat. Yo...

No doubt this comment from Pharyngula prompted him to remove Ogvorbis' nym: theophontes (æ¶å…å…å…ç¼“æ¥åŠ¨ç‰©) 28 November 2013 at 10:31 am (UTC -6) @ Janine / Nick Nick, I am afraid I know who schlumbumbi is talking. The â€˜pitters are merrily naming names in this regard over on Michaelâ€™s bl...

Ladies and gentlemen(oh my god gender binaries!!), I give you...HYPERSKEPTICISM http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2013/11/dayna-morales-may-have-made-it-up/#comment-971091 Everyone's favorite idiot. There's some more contenders as well. From what I understand, the restaurant is not s...

PZ also fails at history. Oh, and he can thank "bourgeois capitalist consumption" for his current lifestyle. If it were not for the rising middle class (and the increasing power of merchants) in per-industrialized and early industrialized Europe, PZ would probably be out working a fucking field som...

Wow, PZ is a real piece of shit. I know that this is a classic liberal talking point from the last 60-70 years, but he's still acting like an asshole. A few Christians every Halloween will talk about how satanic and evil the holiday is, and how they don't celebrate it and go to "hell houses" instea...

Idiotic gobbledegook. Its a word salad, at best. But not to good ol Mels. That is serious shit. About that website : SOTT.net is a research project of the non-profit Quantum Future Group (QFG). The project includes collecting, arranging, and analyzing news items that seem to best reflect the moveme...

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/11/26/richard-dawkins-awaiting-your-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-721084 Uh oh, seems as though the horde is beginning to sense weakness in the master. Maybe PZ doesn't realize how faast this could all turn around on him. He seems to think these peopl...

Or not. Because, in fact, their test doesn't actually work. It's not that the tests "don't work", the issue is that different companies don't use the same set of markers so they don't capture the same risk factors. The genetic data is real, even if in some cases the companies make claims that go be...

Pagancat wrote:No one old enough to remember this?

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I remember that. I'd rather not.

No, I mean confirming the presence of a breast cancer risk allele (for example by taking one of the clinically approved, but more expensive, genetic tests). Maybe one of the doctors here can confirm how it works in the US, but it seems unlikely that a doctor would recommend invasive treatments base...

I actually tried the 23andMe thing a while back, and they've got disclaimers all over the place for every little thing telling you that it's not a diagnostic, and if you have any concerns you should see a doctor. Before you even *view* those markers, you have to read and acknowledge a disclaimer re...

I actually tried the 23andMe thing a while back, and they've got disclaimers all over the place for every little thing telling you that it's not a diagnostic, and if you have any concerns you should see a doctor. Before you even *view* those markers, you have to read and acknowledge a disclaimer re...

Well well well. I would like to know what has happened here. If the statement is correct, somebody is lying. Hard evidence from independent sources is always, in this kind of investigation, given the best weight. Seeing the hard-matches, I'm going with one of two scenarios: 1. The server lied. This...

Get ready for the fireworks! ... http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view2/1474222/atomic-bomb-o.gif Reads more like a damp squib, frankly. He's too vague and pulls too many punches in the name of being fair and balanced. I wouldn't expect him to go all in but he did the one thing that nobody on the FTB/Ske...

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